Scott Brode, a customer-focused quality enthusiast with 15 years of quality assurance experience on a diverse set of applications including residential mortgage processing, online investing, healthcare scheduling, integrated media, and e-commerce.

Steve Capps, a software architect with more than 25 years of experience creating Macintosh, Newton, browsers, toys, music software, and 60+ patents.

Loree Hirschman, an entrepreneur and social media marketer with experience in growing online communities. She is a former Bain consultant and navy jet pilot.

Ben Katz, whose experience in consumer-facing ecommerce includes running brand partnerships for CafePress.com and founding mobile handset customizer Coveroo.com.

Dave Litwak, who has built and led high performing sales teams at companies such as Manugistics, Good Technology / Motorola and Gearworks.

John Minor, a customer-focused technologist who managed multiple products at Motorola and has led several customer and account support teams at enterprise-level technology organizations.

George Nikaido, an applications-focused network engineer who has been running network operations for Internet start-ups in Silicon Valley since 1997, after an early stint in the biotechnology arena.

Scotty Perkins, a business process engineering leader who directed operations and technology integration at FedEx Kinko's and Motorola.

Danny Shader, who led Accept.com, the first consumer-to-consumer payment service, which Amazon.com acquired in 1999, and Good Technology, Inc., which Motorola acquired in 2007.

Kurt Thams, who built financial transaction-processing systems for banks and remittance companies, including the third-largest global money transfer company, Ria (a Euronet Worldwide Company).

Michael Tibbott, who has 14 years of experience building scalable, secure, high availability web sites. He built the largest personals site on the Internet in the late 1990s, ran Project Greenlight for three seasons and most recently launched SuperSecret, a MMO for tweens.

Honorary Ducks

Bill Campbell, Chairman, Intuit; board member, Apple, Inc.

Michael Kearns, professor at the Computer and Information Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania

Board Members

Jon Callaghan, General Partner, True Ventures

Dan Levitan, General Partner, Maveron

Danny Shader, CEO, Kwedit, Inc.

Advisors

Steven Addis is CEO of Addis Creson, a leading branding and marketing firm. For over 25 years, he has created and revitalized brands across a diverse spectrum of large corporations (Intel, Pepsico, Kellogg's), midsize companies (Café Press, Equinix, Mozilla), and start-ups (Shutterfly, Elevance, Better Place).

Ashmit Bhatacharya is the CTO at Plastic Jungle. As the founder of Radical Payment Solutions, he provides technology and domain advisory services in the area of electronic payments. Previously, Ashmit was VP of Engineering at Blackhawk Network (Safeway).

Emma Capps is a middle-school author and illustrator.

Wences Casares is co-CEO of Bling Nation, a mobile payments company he founded in 2007. Prior to Bling Nation, Casares founded Lemon Bank, a Brazilian retail bank for the poor, in June 2002. Lemon Bank is now the largest microfinance institution in Brazil.

Todd Collins is a Managing Director at Tregaron Capital and has been a consultant, executive, and investor in growth and mid-market companies for 20 years.

Ranah Edelin is VP of Business Development and Marketing at Raptr. He previously served in executive positions at EA and RealNetworks, was part of the founding team of Rhapsody (Listen.com, acquired by RealNetworks), and was co-founder and CEO of the karaoke start-up SingShot (acquired by EA).

Jeff Jordan is the President and CEO of OpenTable.com. Prior to joining OpenTable, Jeff served as the president of PayPal, the Web-based payment system owned by eBay, where he was responsible for establishing the company as the global standard for online payments.

Jim Mullin heads the media supply chain organization for the Entertainment division of NCR Corp. He has previously led operations and analytics groups at several companies including Blackhawk Network (a subsidiary of Safeway), Amazon.com, and Sun Microsystems.

Walter Paulsen is Senior Vice President of Business Development and Retail for Giiv.com, a mobile and social gifting company. He was previously President of CardFact, and prior to that a founding VP at Blackhawk Network (a subsidiary of Safeway).

Prakash Ramamurthy is a seasoned technology executive who currently serves as the Chief Technology Officer at LifeLock.  He was previously VP of Products at Gaia Interactive, creators of Gaia Online.